Back then most of the youngsters I knew the cars were so simple and easy to fix and modify that everyone was at it and youngsters learned so much about cars by working on them etc. I struggle working on some newer stuff and I've been a mechanic for 21 years now. Had a 2.0 Capri in at work couple of months back for gearbox rebuild and clutch, new Weber carb and fit a stereo. Was sooooo easy to work on I could see why all the old boy mechanics must have shit them selves when new stuff came out with fuel injection etc. It's all relative I suppose, when I started in 1996 we were working on cars from the late 70s and 80s cars, makes me feel old when I realise 1986 cars were only 10 years old then and we were welding them up, the mig welder was on all day everyday. With me going from my apprenticeship working on mk1/2 astras, mk3/4 escorts and such like cars I now struggle with a lot of the technology that's in cars now so I can see what the old boys must have felt